Of course...Carty got what he wanted in the sweetheart deal for TWA, which had to have been bought and paid for somehow, to make the judges overlook the blatant shafting of TWA shareholders that took place.

It's unlikely that AA will use STL as a serious hub, and ORD is already so overcrowded that AA now has extra assets on its hands, so what would it want with still MORE planes from USAirways? Besides, most of what they were going to buy were US's 757s, most of which were old Eastern planes. Why pay big bucks for an aging fleet?

Besides, the UA/US merger is all but dead, they just have to wait another 6 weeks before rolling out Plan B (whatever that is).